NetIQ Corporation offers a monitoring system based on a solid understanding of Active Directory and many years of experience managing it at customer sites. NetIQ Corporation has created a set of general guidelines as well as minimum recommended and best monitoring practices. This guide provides instructions and advice for following these guidelines and using the recommended AD Knowledge Script Groups in a way that best suits your unique Active Directory installation.
With AppManager, you can monitor and manage the following:
Core health of key Active Directory components, including Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMOs), replication, trusts, Kerberos, Timesync, NetLogon, FRS, and SysVol.
CPU utilization, memory consumption, and key performance counters.
Replication latency for all Active Directory partitions.
Interface health for LDAP and global catalogs.
Any Active Directory-related entries in the Windows Event Log.
The number of objects and other specific Active Directory components.
Interrelated groups of servers with changing roles that need selective Knowledge Script execution. You can use job delegation to accomplish this task.
A set of Knowledge Script Groups is provided to help you run jobs right out of the box while still adhering to NetIQ Corporation best practice guidelines for monitoring Microsoft Active Directory. These collections of Knowledge Scripts from the AD category have been grouped to perform common monitoring functions. Some Knowledge Scripts within a Knowledge Script Group have different default settings to help the group perform a particular function.
For more information, see Section 3.50, AD Knowledge Script Groups. Knowledge Script Groups are available on the RECOMMENDED tab in the Operator Console Knowledge Script pane.
You can best use Knowledge Script Groups by employing AppManager monitoring policies in your environment. For more information, see “About Policy-Based Monitoring” in the AppManager Help.